Resolution update
Mar. 29th, 2005 03:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsA little early (and I haven't so much finished the quilt as wrestled the contrary bugger to a standstill - but I will have it finished by the end of the weekend, so it counts) this month's resolution checklist:
The beginning of March was a turning point in the resolutions - February was the last of the major decluttering tasks. Yay, that's all over!
If 2004 was the Declutter Period, then 2005 is turning into the UFO Year. (UFO in the alt.crafts.textiles.quilting sense, meaning "UnFinished Objects.") If I can keep up with the schedule, I will have read down the TBRs to a reasonable level and I will have completed at least 5 of my quilt projects and set up the 6th to be ready to go in 2006.
THETIME KILLER HAND WORK PROJECT (NEW)
And the winner is -- cutting patches for the 2000 patch quilts. (Long story short, bought a set of 2000 patches for a y2K quilt. Am cutting those patches down for use in a watercolor quilt and a colorado stripe quilt. It's quiet, portable, and gets an obviously overdue project back on track.)
EDUMACATION (NEW)
After a serious purge of my TBR books this month - I broke down and culled them not on "do I want to read this sometime" but "if I pull it out of the stack now, will I even remember I owned it by the next book count? Will I remember that this book exists?" - I decided it was time to Do Something about the 18 books comprising a self-study class on Tudor history from Henry VII through the death of Elizabeth. So, after Shore Leave and the Harry Potterathon but before the renfaire (and when I'm coincidentally hanging around Stratford for a week), I'm going to start said self-study at the rate of at least one book a month. The "final exam" will be to write one or more magazine articles at the end, topics to be decided later. (Not Henry's wives. Religion in the Renaissance is looking like a goodie for Renaissance Magazine, and will give me practice for the missionary project.)
JANUARY
Hang grandmother's quilt in hall
Go through and reorganize cookbooks
Create personal cookbook of favorite recipes
Bonus craft project: learn to make bread by hand from scratch
Bonus exercise/diet: begin shift to polydiet and start Tai Chi classes
TBR: 238
FEBRUARY
Declutter basement
Donate excess fabrics or make quilt kits for PfF III
Organize all fabric by project in neat containers
Clean up Library (dumping ground for things that didn't belong in basement)
Bonus vacation: Go to VA quilt show and make a stop in Colonial Williamsburg
TBR: 259
MARCH
Start asking for TW donations for MS walk
Shore Leave Masquerade:
- recruit crew
- set up dedicated database (with help of programmers)
Make baby quilt for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tchwrtr
Come up with small handicraft/skill to sell for TW walk donations admitting defeat here, for this year. Maybe something cardwoven next year.
Bonus - Weekend in NYC and see Spamalot!
TBR: 197 Below 200! Below 200! Now I have to get it so far down that I don't go back above 200 after the book giveaways at Malice.
APRIL
Apply for Gov't job
Mend mundane clothes
Learn how to make my own patterns for embroidery machine (yes, I did switch that from March)
Make/buy & embroider Team Wench bodice or Irish dress to be postponed until TW has decided on new logo
create fabric masquerade banner We want a banner, because the other folks have a banner. But in light of all the stuff that I'm already schlepping, do *I* want to deal with a banner and its support struts as well? Not so sure.
Sew three chemises
Dye stained skirt and blouse, both black
Make pineapple scrap quilt
Walk in TW MS walk
TBR:
MAY
Mend Renfair clothes
- Embroider
- - green Irish dress (with celtic knots)
- - blue Irish dress (with celtic thistle)
- - black Irish dress (with tudor roses)
- - black twill bodice (with tudor roses?)
- Take in black skirt
- Fit flat caps (black, green, tapestry)
- Convert drawstring skirts to elastic
Bonus travel:
- attend Malice Domestic
- attend Media*West
TBR:
JUNE
Embroider Young Fan awards for Shore Leave
Order Shore Leave awards
Sell on ebay:
- psaltry
- gold crystal ball stand
- old BatB fanzines
Sew rainbow braid quilt
TBR:
JULY
Run Shore Leave Masquerade
Buy Harry Potter 6 & reread entire series
Write 10K/B&B crossover story
TBR: on hold for review books and Rowlingathon
AUGUST
You'll notice that the big list of missionary-related books to read is gone. Turns out, either they didn't cover the correct time period, or they were so general as to be useless. (Pilgrim Path tells the story of the missionary ladies, yes - but as third-person history without one direct quote or a bibliography in the back to tell me where to find the context. This makes them about as useful for my project as reading James Herriot's Cat Stories - amusing, but utterly beside the point.) So, while August remains Missionary Month, the directive has changed.
Help with Prepare for Fair III
Finish Hiram's Diary - scanning, putting into timeline, hunting down quotes
Create pitch package for missionary project
Outline missionary book
Look up pitching requirements for McFarland
Create comprehensive list of HMCS references, give to Aunt
Hang at least three more pictures
Prep old jeans for making denim quilts
Start Tudor history self-study: (x books to go)
Bonus Travel: Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Bouchercon
TBRs:
SEPTEMBER
Finish putting old BatB fic online
Soapmaking:
- test soap recipes, find a favorite
- make one batch milk or eggnog soap
Make embroidered denim quilt
Tudor Self Study: (x books to go)
TBR:
OCTOBER
?Walk in Go Red walk?
Make silk crazy quilt
Choose possible next degree
Tudor Self Study (x books to go)
TBR:
NOVEMBER
Make holiday-recipe cookbook of tried and trusted recipes (NaCookWriMo?)
Finish old recipe cleanup - gut and toss backlog of magazines and clippings
Begin work on cross-stitched Christmas stockings for self and roommate postponed another year - might prefer to cross-stitch on leftover silks from crazy quilt rather than on cross stitch fabric
Sew denim and flannel crazy quilt.
Tudor Self Study: (x books to go)
TBR:
DECEMBER
Learn to make 3 kinds of candy (molded chocolates, eggnog fudge, press cookies)
Clean candlemold and make 1/2 dozen winterfest-style candles.
Write up at least two Christmas movies for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
plan_9_from_lj
TBR & Tudor: n/a because I read dedicated Christmas books all month.
What's really scary? I'm already starting the
2006 RESOLUTIONS (The year of the upgrade)
GENERAL:
Create and stick to budget
Host one Local 42 and/or Team Wench stitch and bitch
Handwork project = cardweave enough trim for a renfaire costume (my cloak?); redwork quilt
Learn new crafts = woodburning and cardweaving
Catch up on TBR zines, get to less than 1 dozen
Finish Tudor Self Study and pitch articles to Renaissance or other history magazine
Be financially ready by end of year to travel/enroll
Jan - woodburning - learn how to do, customize feast gear basket & wooden mug(s). Create sellable favors for TW walk in April.
Feb - Williamsburg Quilt trip, make Y2K quilts
March - Recruit Shore Leave masq crew & judges, burn old cassette tapes & records to CDs
April - make 3-5 new pieces for ren wardrobe from materials already in possession
May - burn VHS tapes to DVD, Malice Domestic, Media*West
June - find proper bookstore to sell off rare books (Strand?), missionary research at Library of Congress
July - Shore Leave Masq, at least 8 pages of fic (either in accumulated shorts or one story)
August - Stratford & Dragoncon
Sept - Embroider & trim cloak & replace clasp. ?missionary research in Boston?
Oct - catch up unfinished projects on this list
Nov - NaNoWriMo?
Dec - christmas gifts and crafts, add one new decoration to house holiday
The beginning of March was a turning point in the resolutions - February was the last of the major decluttering tasks. Yay, that's all over!
If 2004 was the Declutter Period, then 2005 is turning into the UFO Year. (UFO in the alt.crafts.textiles.quilting sense, meaning "UnFinished Objects.") If I can keep up with the schedule, I will have read down the TBRs to a reasonable level and I will have completed at least 5 of my quilt projects and set up the 6th to be ready to go in 2006.
THE
And the winner is -- cutting patches for the 2000 patch quilts. (Long story short, bought a set of 2000 patches for a y2K quilt. Am cutting those patches down for use in a watercolor quilt and a colorado stripe quilt. It's quiet, portable, and gets an obviously overdue project back on track.)
EDUMACATION (NEW)
After a serious purge of my TBR books this month - I broke down and culled them not on "do I want to read this sometime" but "if I pull it out of the stack now, will I even remember I owned it by the next book count? Will I remember that this book exists?" - I decided it was time to Do Something about the 18 books comprising a self-study class on Tudor history from Henry VII through the death of Elizabeth. So, after Shore Leave and the Harry Potterathon but before the renfaire (and when I'm coincidentally hanging around Stratford for a week), I'm going to start said self-study at the rate of at least one book a month. The "final exam" will be to write one or more magazine articles at the end, topics to be decided later. (Not Henry's wives. Religion in the Renaissance is looking like a goodie for Renaissance Magazine, and will give me practice for the missionary project.)
JANUARY
TBR: 238
FEBRUARY
TBR: 259
MARCH
tchwrtrTBR: 197 Below 200! Below 200! Now I have to get it so far down that I don't go back above 200 after the book giveaways at Malice.
APRIL
Apply for Gov't job
Learn how to make my own patterns for embroidery machine (yes, I did switch that from March)
Sew three chemises
Dye stained skirt and blouse, both black
Make pineapple scrap quilt
Walk in TW MS walk
TBR:
MAY
Mend Renfair clothes
- Embroider
- - green Irish dress (with celtic knots)
- - blue Irish dress (with celtic thistle)
- - black Irish dress (with tudor roses)
- - black twill bodice (with tudor roses?)
- Take in black skirt
- Fit flat caps (black, green, tapestry)
- Convert drawstring skirts to elastic
Bonus travel:
- attend Malice Domestic
- attend Media*West
TBR:
JUNE
Embroider Young Fan awards for Shore Leave
Order Shore Leave awards
Sell on ebay:
- psaltry
- gold crystal ball stand
- old BatB fanzines
Sew rainbow braid quilt
TBR:
JULY
Run Shore Leave Masquerade
Buy Harry Potter 6 & reread entire series
Write 10K/B&B crossover story
TBR: on hold for review books and Rowlingathon
AUGUST
You'll notice that the big list of missionary-related books to read is gone. Turns out, either they didn't cover the correct time period, or they were so general as to be useless. (Pilgrim Path tells the story of the missionary ladies, yes - but as third-person history without one direct quote or a bibliography in the back to tell me where to find the context. This makes them about as useful for my project as reading James Herriot's Cat Stories - amusing, but utterly beside the point.) So, while August remains Missionary Month, the directive has changed.
Help with Prepare for Fair III
Finish Hiram's Diary - scanning, putting into timeline, hunting down quotes
Create pitch package for missionary project
Outline missionary book
Look up pitching requirements for McFarland
Create comprehensive list of HMCS references, give to Aunt
Hang at least three more pictures
Prep old jeans for making denim quilts
Start Tudor history self-study: (x books to go)
Bonus Travel: Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Bouchercon
TBRs:
SEPTEMBER
Finish putting old BatB fic online
Soapmaking:
- test soap recipes, find a favorite
- make one batch milk or eggnog soap
Make embroidered denim quilt
Tudor Self Study: (x books to go)
TBR:
OCTOBER
?Walk in Go Red walk?
Make silk crazy quilt
Choose possible next degree
Tudor Self Study (x books to go)
TBR:
NOVEMBER
Make holiday-recipe cookbook of tried and trusted recipes (NaCookWriMo?)
Finish old recipe cleanup - gut and toss backlog of magazines and clippings
Sew denim and flannel crazy quilt.
Tudor Self Study: (x books to go)
TBR:
DECEMBER
Learn to make 3 kinds of candy (molded chocolates, eggnog fudge, press cookies)
Clean candlemold and make 1/2 dozen winterfest-style candles.
Write up at least two Christmas movies for
plan_9_from_ljTBR & Tudor: n/a because I read dedicated Christmas books all month.
What's really scary? I'm already starting the
2006 RESOLUTIONS (The year of the upgrade)
GENERAL:
Create and stick to budget
Host one Local 42 and/or Team Wench stitch and bitch
Handwork project = cardweave enough trim for a renfaire costume (my cloak?); redwork quilt
Learn new crafts = woodburning and cardweaving
Catch up on TBR zines, get to less than 1 dozen
Finish Tudor Self Study and pitch articles to Renaissance or other history magazine
Be financially ready by end of year to travel/enroll
Jan - woodburning - learn how to do, customize feast gear basket & wooden mug(s). Create sellable favors for TW walk in April.
Feb - Williamsburg Quilt trip, make Y2K quilts
March - Recruit Shore Leave masq crew & judges, burn old cassette tapes & records to CDs
April - make 3-5 new pieces for ren wardrobe from materials already in possession
May - burn VHS tapes to DVD, Malice Domestic, Media*West
June - find proper bookstore to sell off rare books (Strand?), missionary research at Library of Congress
July - Shore Leave Masq, at least 8 pages of fic (either in accumulated shorts or one story)
August - Stratford & Dragoncon
Sept - Embroider & trim cloak & replace clasp. ?missionary research in Boston?
Oct - catch up unfinished projects on this list
Nov - NaNoWriMo?
Dec - christmas gifts and crafts, add one new decoration to house holiday
